Bradley Smoker
Bradley Original 4 Rack Electric Smoker
Bradley's smoke source is unlike anything else in this catalog: instead of a chip tray or a pellet auger, a feeder advances a compressed hardwood puck onto a 125W burner every twenty minutes, then drops the spent one into a water bowl before it can turn to ash and acrid smoke. Load the tube and it produces nine hours of clean smoke unattended. The Original is the analog model - a dial for the 500W oven element, a separate switch for the smoke burner, and nothing else. Four 11 x 13 in racks, 572 sq in, a polished stainless interior.
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Specifications
Pros
- ✓The bisquette feeder is the cleanest smoke source of any home smoker: each puck smoulders for twenty minutes then is quenched, so it never burns down into bitter smoke
- ✓Separating the smoke burner from the oven element means you can smoke at almost any temperature, including cold smoking with the adapter
- ✓Nine hours of smoke with no intervention - not even a pellet smoker manages that without a hopper alarm
- ✓Polished stainless interior wipes clean, and the racks are small enough to fit a dishwasher
- ✓Insulated cabinet at 15 inches wide fits on a small balcony or in a garage doorway
Cons
- ✗250°F ceiling means it will never crisp chicken skin or render a pork butt bark - this is a smoker, not a cooker
- ✗Bisquettes are a proprietary consumable you must keep buying from Bradley; running out ends the cook
- ✗Nine hours of smoke costs roughly 27 bisquettes, which adds real per-cook expense a chip tray does not
- ✗The Original has no thermostat feedback worth the name - the dial is a power setting, so ambient temperature moves the cabinet temperature
- ✗Thin insulation for a cabinet smoker; below freezing it struggles to hold even 200°F
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